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Word: flags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should come, us we feel it will, may those men face their flag who talk so valiantly now of peace . . . Today is the chance for you. No self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late." (February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorials, Restraining or Jingoistic, Advised College During Three Crucial Wars | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...when Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk turned up in the Oct. 6 issue wearing his spectacles upside down, more than 100 of you said you noticed it. Fifteen of you, presumably equipped with magnifying glasses, even noticed that there were 56 stars in a floral facsimile of the American flag made by a Mexican florist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...tiny flag station of Wykes, C.N.R.'s No. 11, more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop. Bitter cold (-35°) had forced down steam in the engine's boilers; it would take time to get it up again. Because No. 21 was following on the same track, a brakeman set out to light warning flares and set torpedoes. But No. 21, pounding through the early morning fog, was dreadfully close behind. Before the brakeman could light a flare, it had plowed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: The Wreck of No. I I | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...down as he dictated to his son Bramwell. "The Christian Mission," said Booth, "is a Volunteer Army." Then suddenly he leaned over his son's shoulder, crossed out the word "Volunteer" and substituted "Salvation." Thus he named the Army that has since planted its red-and-blue flag in almost every country in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shock Troops | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...flag contains 13 stars on a red field and is also something like the British Union Jack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dixie Flag Flies Over Yankeeland | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

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